Say what you like about Japanese, but we are freak about hygiene! Perhaps our natural abundance supply of water, much of it volcanically heated, explains the timeless Japanese obsession with bathing. Of course, there was a time when few homes had their own bathrooms, yet all communities would choose to go to sento, the Japanese style public bath house. Until quite recently, many Japanese find sento as mistakenly placed in time but [Continue Reading…]